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Japan PM begins three-day visit to Myanmar
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe begins a three-day visit to Myanmar on Friday -- the first trip by a Japanese leader to the previously isolated nation in over three ...
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Lebanese President cautions Hezbollah over Syria role
Hezbollah on Friday over its militants' intervention on the side of the regime in the conflict in neighbouring Syria. "The resistance is nobler and more important than anything, and should not get bogged down in the sands of dissension, whether in Syria or Lebanon," he said in a statement, referring to Hezbollah's traditional focus on fighting Israel. "The resistance has ...
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UK fighter jets escort Pakistani plane after midair alert
Pakistan International Airlines flight bound for Manchester following a mid-air "security alert". Fighter jets have escorted the PIA aircraft from Manchester Airport to Stansted Airport, Sky News reported. There are understood to be 297 passengers on board. The plane was heading west towards Manchester when it was suddenly re-routed near York and headed back out to the North Sea, ...
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London killers had attacked an Indian-origin man mistaking him to be a soldier
The slain soldier Lee Rigby, of the British army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, is seen in an undated photo released on May 23, 2013. (Via ...
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Germans blame eurozone crisis for Eurovision debacle
eurozone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting. Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the event, watched by around 125 million people across Europe, with 281 points while German act Cascada was 21st out of 26 countries, getting just 18 points from Austria, Israel, Spain, Albania and ...
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PHL eyes working with USASEAN on genetically modifiedcrop...
In his remarks during the agriculture and food security conference for the ASEAN diplomatic community in Washington DC, Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia Jr. said the Philippines is willing to share the knowledge and experience it has obtained in the 10 years it has implemented its science-based regulatory system for products of modern biotechnology and also learn from the experiences of the US and ...
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N Korean envoy meets China president state media
A North Korean envoy met China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing Friday and handed him a personal letter from leader Kim Jong-Un, Chinese state-run media ...
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Huge blasts gunfire heard near Indian embassy in Kabul
NEW DELHI: Large explosions have been heard in Kabul on Friday followed by gunfire. Sources told Times Now that the explosions happened near the Indian embassy though the mission was not the target of the attack. AFP reported that gunfire erupted as security forces rushed to the scene of the blasts that took place around 4pm local time. "There has been explosion in an area which is close to ...
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Barack Obama seeks end to perpetual U.S. war on terror
WASHINGTON - Twelve years after the "war on terror" began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants. In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama narrowed the scope of the targeted-killing drone campaign against al-Qaida and its allies and took steps toward closing the ...
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Asia Flash Singapore posts improved activity indicators
The Japanese stock market recovered somewhat today (+0.9%), after a 2-day roller-coaster ride that saw losses of -7.3% yesterday on worries of a possible QE exit by the Fed and a much weaker-than-expected outturn of China's HSBC Flash PMI for May. The volatility in Japanese equity and bond markets underscores risks of the BoJ's dramatic easing campaign and the importance that markets ...
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Syrian regime to attend peace talks
BEIRUT: The Syrian government has agreed "in principle" to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending the Arab country's conflict, Russia's foreign ministry said Friday. It was the first confirmation that President Bashar Assad's government would be willing to take part in the talks with the opposition. But despite the announcement from ...
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Stockholm riots continue schools set ablaze
STOCKHOLM: More than a dozen cars were torched and schools, shops and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs for the fifth straight night, police and firefighters said Friday. Police plan to call in reinforcements to help quell the riots, but parents and volunteer organisations who have patrolled the streets in recent nights have ...
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Large explosions gunfire in central Kabul
NEW DELHI: Large explosions have been heard in Kabul on Friday followed by gunfire. Sources told Times Now that the explosions happened near the Indian embassy though the mission was not the target of the attack. AFP reported that gunfire erupted as security forces rushed to the scene of the blasts that took place around 4pm local time. "There has been explosion in an area which is close to ...
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Pakistan US diplomat kills pedestrian in accident
ISLAMABAD — The U.S. Embassy says an American diplomat accidentally killed a pedestrian while driving in the Pakistani capital. The embassy said in a statement sent to reporters that the diplomat hit the pedestrian near a market in Islamabad on Friday. The pedestrian died as a result of his injuries. The embassy expresses regret for the accident and says it is cooperating with Pakistani ...
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Explosion hits heart of Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An explosion has sent smoke rising over the heart of Afghanistan's capital. The strong blast was felt several kilometers (miles) ...
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Ethnic Indian party in Malaysia faces new rival
KUALA LUMPUR: The entry of a hitherto shunned ethnic Hindu body into the folds of the prime minister's department has rattled Malaysia's largest Indian-origin political party. ...
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Op-Ed Contributor Asian Tensions and the Problem of History
The political turmoil currently roiling Northeast Asia ...
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Exiled cleric who taught UK soldiers killer praises courage
Lee Rigby on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. In an interview in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, where he has lived since being banished from Britain in ...
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Asia goes on a debt binge as most of the world sobers up
In the heart of Kuala Lumpur lies the abandoned foundation of Plaza Rakyat, a never-built skyscraper and shopping mall. Rusty rebar jutting from concrete pilings and fetid green pools of rainwater serve as an unintended monument to the debt crisis that ravaged Asia in the late 1990s. Today, less than a half mile from the abandoned project, the next boom is under way in the Malaysian metropolis. ...
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World stocks stabilize after big sell-off
MOSCOW (AP) -- World stocks stabilized on Friday, a day after global markets dropped sharply on concerns global growth is slowing and the Federal Reserve could start scaling back its monetary ...
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STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-HSBC falls amid Asia worries stalling U.S. talks
* FTSEurofirst 300 down 0.5 pct, FTSE 100 down 0.7 pct* HSBC drags indexes on fears about U.S. case settlement* Selling pressure piles up as indexes test supportBy Francesco CanepaLONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - European shares edged lower ...
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US lauds India for reducing Iranian oil imports
A senior official praised India for reducing oil imports from Iran and said the U.S. government will decide soon on New Delhi's request to renew a waiver from sanctions on ...
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Suicide bomber kills 3 in northwest Pakistan
Police say a suicide bomber walked up to a vehicle owned by an Afghan religious leader in northwestern Pakistan and set off his explosives, killing three ...
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Abe on 1st trip to Myanmar by Japan PM in 36 years
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is traveling to Myanmar on the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years, as Tokyo bids to reassert its position as a top economic partner after decades of frosty relations with the previous military ...
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Dai-ichi expands in Southeast Asia with Panin Life deal source
By Taiga Uranaka TOKYO | Fri May 24, 2013 7:10am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co Ltd (8750.T) has agreed to buy a 40 percent stake in Panin Life from the parent of the Indonesian insurer for around 30 billion yen ($295 million), a source with direct knowledge of the matter said. The stake acquisition by one of Japan's top four life insurers is the latest ...
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Central Asia's French Revolution
The crisis that recently gripped Kyrgyzstan and saw President Bakiyev forced from power represents, for Central Asian countries, something similar to what the French Revolution represented to the aristocracy of Europe – that the masses are gathering and uniting.
Kyrgyzstan’s political tensions had been rising long before the riots that were broadcast all over the world and across Central Asia news stations, showing images of an angry mod swarming the street, and the dramatic moment at which a van was sent crashing through the ornate main gates of the Presidential Palace. Read more
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